"My Interpretation" is the twentieth episode of Season Two of Scrubs. Jamie Moyer's (Amy Smart) husband, Jack, dies and J.D. still has sex with her. J.D. has problems communicating with a German patient when he finds out the patient has cancer. Dr. Cox has to look after the baby when Jordan forces him. Turk has a sex dream about Elliot.

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Jamie Moyer's husband dies, and J.D. goes to see her at the funeral. They end up having sex, but J.D. is worried that Jamie is not ready for another relationship yet. Meanwhile, Jordan asks Dr. Cox to watch the baby for a while. Cox becomes very bored during the watch, and the next time Jordan asks him to babysit the kid (whom she wants to name Quinn after her father, despite Dr. Cox's insisting on Jack), he makes up an excuse.

Turk is having problems of his own when he keeps having sex dreams about Elliot. He eventually confesses it to her and makes her swear not to tell Carla, who he knows will turn into a jealous wreck. Carla ultimately finds out, not from Elliot, but from one of Turk's patients, who heard him discussing it with The Todd. She gets mad at first but quickly calms down later that day and reassures her soon-to-be husband that it's perfectly normal to have these dreams when engaged. When they are about to go to sleep, and he asks her if she has any such dreams, she says no, only to turn and see Ted in Turk's place, confirming that she and Turk are of the same mind.

J.D., meanwhile, is struggling to tell a German patient, Rolf Mueller, who speaks no English, that he may have pancreatic cancer. Later, he finds out from Elliot, who turns out to be fluent in German, that the patient's brother Hermann, whom he used as a translator, in fact withheld the information from his brother. However, when the patient's test results come back and it's apparent that he will be fine, J.D. contemplates whether it's worth telling him at all. He eventually decides in favor of it, using Elliot as the translator. In the process, J.D. realizes that just as the patient's brother tried to protect him when he shouldn't have, so was J.D. being overprotective of Jamie and her decision to pursue a relationship with him. Armed with this knowledge, he meets her and tells her that he realizes her husband is gone for good and that if she feels ready, he'll take her... in front of her late husband's parents.

Dr. Cox isn't doing much better when Jordan catches him playing basketball, revealing that he lied when he said he couldn't watch her baby. When they next meet at his apartment, he convinces Jordan to call the baby Jack, and when she lets him hold Jack, Dr. Cox realizes that he really does care for him.

J.D. stops by the Janitor's house by accident because he needs to pee. By chance, he catches a glimpse of the Janitor's penis as the Janitor takes a shower, and sees a spot that looks like melanoma. Eventually, J.D. convinces the Janitor to let him take a closer look, revealing that the spot is, fortunately, benign. The Janitor, albeit through gritted teeth, thanks J.D.

“What do you say there, Stephanie, how about you step up to the plate and tell the guy? My God, I'm only three weeks old and already I've got more stones than you do. One of mine hasn't dropped yet.”— Dr. Cox as Jack

Viewers fluent in German have noted that Sarah Chalke actually speaks better German in this episode than the German characters.

Neither of the actors playing the Mueller brothers actually speaks German. Soren Hellerup is Danish, and while Ingo Neuhaus has a German name and was born in Germany, he grew up in America. Both mostly deliver their lines phonetically, with multiple grammatical errors.

In the German translation of this episode, the Germans are Danes and Elliot speaks Danish.

In the German version, Mr. Mueller's name is Mr. Olsen.

The sentence that Herman tells his brother is "Es wird alles gut gehen", but when J.D. tells Elliot what he heard (but did not understand), he says "Es wird alles wieder gut" (which is also correct in German, but clearly a different expression). Nevertheless, the translation "Everything is gonna be fine" fits for both versions.

The two sentences, that Elliot says to prove that she actually speaks German mean translated:

The milkmaid: "Good morning, do you want to milk the cows?"

The evil old hausfrau: "Eat your schnitzel, or else you won't get a dessert!"